Four crew were killed on Saturday when a Russian airliner crashed into a motorway and broke up into three pieces after overshooting the runway at an international Moscow airport.
The Red Wings airlines’ Russian-made Tu-204 jet -- empty of passengers and carrying its eight crew -- caught fire after crashing through the perimeter fence of Vnukovo airport in the west of the city, officials said.
Wreckage was strewn across the motorway, but there were no immediate reports of any injuries among road users.
The aircraft was returning from the Czech Republic after flying passengers from Moscow to Pardubice airport outside Prague, a Czech airport official said.
The stricken white-and-red liner ended up with both its nose and tail sections separated from the main body, images broadcast on state television showed.
The plane’s nose was left on the highway with only a tangle of wreckage linking it to the aircraft’s body, which was slumped on the motorway embankment with its disconnected tail lying further down.